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+.TH LESSECHO 1
+.\" NAME should be all caps, SECTION should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection
+.\" other parms are allowed: see man(7), man(1)
+.SH NAME
+lessecho \- expand metacharacters, such as * and ?, in filenames on Unix
+systems.
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B lessecho
+.I "[-ox] [-cx] [-pn] [-dn] [-a] file ..."
+.SH "DESCRIPTION"
+This manual page documents briefly the
+.BR lessecho
+command.
+This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution
+because the original program does not have a manual page.
+.PP
+.B lessecho
+is a program that simply echos its filename arguments on standard output. But
+any argument containing spaces is enclosed in quotes.
+.SH OPTIONS
+A summary of options are included below.
+.TP
+.B \-ox
+Specifies "x" to be the open quote character.
+.TP
+.B \-cx
+Specifies "x" to be the close quote character.
+.TP
+.B \-pn
+Specifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer.
+.TP
+.B \-dn
+Specifies "n" to be the close quote character, as an integer.
+.TP
+.B \-a
+Specifies that all arguments are to be quoted. The default is that only
+arguments containing spaces are quoted.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+less(1)
+.SH AUTHOR
+This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org>,
+for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).